[SciPy-dev] requesting feedback on/editing of scikits wiki-page

[Alexander Schmolck]

Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> writes:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:42:25AM +0100, Alexander Schmolck wrote:
>> > There is also the problem of GPL libraries (qt, pyqt come to mind): I 
>> > don't think you can use them in BSD code, right ? But I guess this 
>> > becomes the grey area of derivative work. 
>> 
>> No, not really. The FSF did its best to make sure that only GPLed code can use
>> GPLed code -- that's the whole point.
>
> That's not true, strictly speaking.  

I think it is. 

> You can still license *your* part of the software under the modified BSD
> license.

My understanding is you can't if it depends on the GPLed code. You'd have to
write a non-GPL'ed drop-in replacement first.

'as